Prior to joining Greylock in 2011, Mr. Lilly was CEO of Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox, an open source Web browser used by more than 450 million people. He also co-founded Reactivity, an enterprise security infrastructure company acquired by Cisco in 2007, where he served as founding CEO and later CTO.

He is currently on the Board of Directors of Citrus Lane, Clearslide, Code for America, Mozilla Corporation, and the Participatory Culture Foundation. He is a board observer at Tumblr, lead's Greylock's investment in Dropbox, and led the investment in Instagram. He is a co-inventor on seven United States patents.

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Venture capitalist John Lilly shares how he was drawn to the role of leading Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser. Rather than seeking to dominate the market, Lilly explains why he and the organization were driven to create a more competitive market. He also shares the moment when he knew he had to join the effort.